StarManta Wrote:The ones who do it for a living, sure... hobbyists often pirate their development tools.

But then you get into the "have the developers really lost anything from people who wouldn't pay anyway" arguments, and we don't want to hijack this thread. Yet.

While I can't claim to have always had a spotless record, all tools I use for development are either free or payed for. People generally never use a pirated tool near its full potential and get bored with it soon. Also, of one is too lazy to buy software, they are far, far likely too lazy to ever complete a game.

And wouldn't it be ironic, to be a pirate on the one hand and then turn around and code copy protection on the other? Software piracy strikes me as an immature practice and it usually takes a person more mature than that to bring a project to fruition.